regimen
Meanings
noun
- Orderly government; system of order; administration.
- Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.
- Object.
- A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.
- Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons.
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Etymology
From Middle English regimen, from Middle French regimen and its etymon, Latin regimen (“guidance, direction, government, rule”). Doublet of regime.
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